good bye 2013

I think that 2013 was a great year, I think about the things I did and it makes me happy for the most part. I should make a list. They are not going to be in any order;)

1.  I carried out the plans I desined a year or two ago for a beautiful lanscape! It was a new house, so I got to design every last little inch of the ouside! I hired a crew, got to let my imagination run wild(with a budget of course), went to a huge greenhouse and ordered a ton of plants! I am excited in the spring to go over there and see all the ornamental trees and bushes in bloom! I designed in a way that there would be interest each Season! In the fall there will be bright red leafs! In the winter there will be spots that the branches will be a bright red or a bright yellow! In the spring, there will be many different colors of liliacs blooming, and three weeping trees will be blooming in another section( one with hot pink flowers!) In the summer there is a perenial and annual flower beds.I planned the perennials to be blooming at different times. Ok, well enough about that;)

2. I found a doctor in Utah that is specializing and researching cfids(chronic fatigiu immume deficiency syndrome).
Yay,no need to travel out of state!!
I have really like going to this doctors office! I love walking in  and feeling like I am not fighting this alone! We have a treatment plan, there is no cure right now, but some of the symptoms can be helped.

3. Went to yellowstone in August! This is a yearly thing, but its always really fun! I started writing a paper titled " what I have learned about Yellowstone, from the Whitakers".

4.  No weird medical issues!  So this is something to at least mention!
    -2012 I had eschemic colitis, and huge              ovarian cyst.

5. We still live in two different places, hoping to remedy that soon!  My house is for sale!

6. Started and stopped paying world of war craft. Decided I didn't want to pay monthly fee:)

7. My goodreads account says I've only read two books this year.... I read more, I swear!  I read a couple of unpublished books;)

8. My name was published in a book!  In the acknowlegdments! This brings it up to three times my name has been in published books. The other two were for my husbands thesis and his technical book he wrote in 2012.

I think a list of eight things its good enough! thanks for reading!
Bye!
Krista

BLAH!

I just opened up a glade plug in and the oil stuff went all over my hands! Now they smell really strong....of "Sunny day", I don't like it! I threw away the bottle, but of course the smell is staying with me because of my hands!

That is all!

Pics

My life in pictures lately!

I got a new hair cut!

My nephew, so close to learning how to walk!

Gluten free Bread

Gluten free Cupcakes

I made a whole ton of beef stew! I might be eating for a while.

A shirt I made recently

Normal??

Today, actually the past week or so, has been one of those,

 "Do I even know what normal feels like anymore, and will I ever again?"

Sound depressing, but that is my life.

I stand staring at my bed, my body begging me to get back in, but my mind throwing a big tantrum. Not ever wanting to get back in bed again!

I don't understand anymore, not that I ever really did. My positive attitude seems to have been fading every year that passes and I don't get any better.

My life seems unchanging, no matter what diet I try, what pill I take, or what herbal remedy I have tried. Nothing works!


Now going through my mind is "should I even post this?" I know I will get calls from concerned family members.  I really do have an amazing support group, and I don't think I could ask for a better one. It is just one of those weeks.

hello all
i have been slacking off on writing on the blog of lately.

lots of things going through my mind.

main thing is this new diet I am on, gluten free.  the doctor i go to wants to see if it will help reduce my symptoms, but i have to be on it for at least 3 months, preferably 6 months to see the difference. Today is day three! that is an accomplishment!  Three days down, 177 days to go! totally should do a countdown on here someh were. i have made a cute binder called "the amazing book of record keeping!" i will have to show you some examples of what is in there,)

well it is late and i should get to sleep. finish up tomorrow hopefully!

It is July?

SO, it has been another month since I have wrote on this blog, Sorry. I guess I am more saying sorry to myself. This seems to be the main journal I keep.

Let us see what I have been up to for the last month and a couple weeks. I finished the landscape I was working on completely and I miss it. It was a really fun project. It would be nice to put my plan for my own house into action, but as of right now, I need to focus my money on other projects:) Like paying off student loans! Hate those pesky things, but I am glad for the opportunity I had to go to college and finish my degree. With out them, I would not have gotten my degree. SO I guess I also owe a "Thanks" to those student loans.

I finally finished organizing my craft room/whatever room. That took a long time. Got a new desk and some organizing shelf things for Christmas, so I finally got that all finished up.

I found out I have a PFO, that is cool, I guess. I will just say it is a battle wound. Going to a cardiologist later this month to figure out what to do about it.

hmmm, Went to bear lake last week, with my brother, sister, mother, grandpa, and one of my brothers friend. That was fun!

It sure has been a hot summer. The temperatures seem to be a little bit hotter this summer. Must just be one of those hot summers!

I have been playing around on familysearch.org you can now add pictures, and there are lots of pictures of relatives I have never seen :) It is fun to look at. I try to go back and find missing links and then try to fill them, it then gets frustrating when I can't, and so I give up for a bit. I should go take a class to find out more info about how to find people. Specially hard when you are searching for a missing person with a very popular last name!

My sister and I went to a yard sale, and I saw these huge boot planters and I just had to get a picture!

Going through old pictures and found this gem! I love it!
Me, my older brother and older sister!

Hi

yes yes yes, It has been a long long time since I posted anything on my blog.
I have been pretty dang busy, for me anyways. I have been having lots of fun too!

A couple years  ago I designed a landscape for someone, and this spring he called and asked me to implement the landscape this year.  He has a beautiful house and has been slowly building it himself for the last little while.  I will upload some pictures :)

This is his house, with some of the landscape put in.

This is just some progressions of what I have been doing. I hired some people, because of course I wouldn't have been doing all this work by my self! It has been really fun. I had some curbing done last Friday, I will have to take pictures and show you all later.

Onto another subject, I was attempting to weed my front flower bed and found a mother mallard duck nesting on her eggs. It was really fun to watch her over a couple of weeks and her ducklings hatched last Monday morning. She had 9 cute little ducklings!